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CU-Mansfield Mountaineer Brass Band to Present Annual Veterans Salute Concert

MANSFIELD, Pa. (11/04/2025) — The Commonwealth University-Mansfield Mountaineer Brass Band (MBB), under the direction of Dr. Nathan Rinnert, will present their annual concert honoring United States military veterans on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 1 p.m., in the VA Hospital Auditorium (Building 92) in Bath, New York.

The 45-minute concert will feature a wide variety of marches, polkas, patriotic pieces and popular tunes. An Armed Forces Salute, that includes songs associated with each branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, will highlight the concert. Guest vocal performers will include sisters of the Sigma Alpha Iota professional music sorority and brothers of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia professional music fraternity.

Admission to the concert is free and patrons of all ages are encouraged to attend. Following the concert, the VA will host a reception for concert attendees, band members, guests and residents of the VA Hospital facility.

The Mountaineer Brass Band is the only traditional, British brass band in Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education, and one of only a handful of university brass bands in the U.S. The MBB maintains a traditional instrumentation of cornets, flugelhorn, tenor horns, baritones, euphoniums, trombones, E-flat tubas, BB-flat tubas and percussion. Initiated at MU in spring 2006, this school year marks the 20th anniversary of the ensemble.

In addition to this annual event, the MBB performs one stand-alone concert each semester, one number at the annual music department PRISM concerts and serves as the CU-Mansfield Commencement Band.

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